Africa Tech Festival announces finalists for Startup World Cup

AsaanaPay – a payments and rewards platform for minority-owned businesses enabling offline and online payments and unrestricted cash back rewards to attract and retain customers. Asaana facilitates local and global payments through a variety of channels from mobile wallets and traditional banks to everything in between. Headquartered in Kenya, Asaana services the world.

Tausi app – Beauty is freedom, and beauty is also big business in Africa, which is how Tausi came about. Tausi is an app that connects beauticians to clients and provides professional hair and makeup and other services to make clients feel fabulous, with a rating system and in-depth onboarding process that is simple to use. The company is headquartered in Kenya with more than 6,000 registered beauticians on their books and having helped more than 20,000 clients.

Bus54 – Based in Nigeria, Bus54 is a mobility technology company providing a platform to aggregate intercity bus transportation in Africa, allowing passengers to search, compare, book, and manage their journeys online. The platform enables transport operators to manage their end-to-end operations from a secure portal with no need for additional investment in IT software or hardware, and an additional channel to sell their tickets.

Delta Scan – a specialist engineering inspection, digitization and building information modeling (BIM) company based in South Africa that digitizes the world around it to create powerful analytical 3D models to extract engineering value. The company strives to improve efficiency, bring down costs, and provide comprehensive information to make better informed decisions. Delta Scan combines cutting-edge aerial platforms and scanning technology together with 3D digitization, artificial intelligence, and engineering analysis principles.

Oneway Connect – a cutting-edge job matching and recruitment software prioritizing cultural alignment that is shaping the future of hiring. Beyond traditional CVs, the platform evaluates capabilities and traits, fostering purposeful performers for businesses. At the heart of its mission is creating a fair candidate experience. With a simple click, jobseekers are seamlessly connected to their ideal roles while assessments empower employers to truly understand candidates' potential beyond keywords.

Ukwenza VR – a social enterprise based in Kenya that focuses on creating educational virtual reality (VR) content to complement classroom learning and offer additional learning on social and environmental issues like conservation and plastic pollution. Ukwenza VR works with schools and educators to create and deliver content to ensure it meets learning standards that serve the community.

Hippocampus Education – an adaptive tutoring Facebook Messenger bot that provides differentiated instruction and instant feedback that is customized to meet each individual's learning needs. It acts as a liaison between the lecturer and the student or between the tutor and the student, supporting in assessment activities and facilitating a learning environment that meets each student's learning needs and provides positive and constructive feedback on progress and performance.

BenaCare – a Kenya-based social enterprise that delivers affordable clinical and supportive care to patients with life-limiting illnesses in the comfort of their own homes. They also reduce and redistribute unpaid care performed by women family caregivers in rural Kenya, by training them on the basics of caregiving like wound care, vitals taking, grooming, ambulation, pressure are care and toileting. In this way, Benacare improves the outcome of the patients and equips women with caregiving skills that can then earn them a living.

Gradlinc – More than a matchmaker between graduate and employer and vice versa, Gradlinc prepares graduates for the workplace, from helping with CVs to creating personal brands, and it is free to graduates. It is a vital two-way bridge between "people," not jobs and workers, as matching values and individuality in people – whether the graduate's or the employer's – builds long-term successful relationships with mutual benefits.

Kyanda Africa – A seamless payment solution with easy financial reach, Nairobi-based Kyanda Africa provides safe and easy access to financial and related services simultaneously in an affordable, efficient, and transparent manner for all at all times. It is on a mission to drive down the number of unbanked and underbanked people across Africa.

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